Mountable in small spaces, this laser is designed for portable volcanic gas monitoring systems.

Silicon photonics company will target the wearables sector with its 'clinic-on-a-wrist' modules.

Fraunhofers and partners report that exchange was securely encrypted by means of light quanta.

To strengthen its position in quantum technology sector; terms of the deal not disclosed.

New platform combines patterned excitation and wide-field detection.

Metrology equipment firm's co-founders say that they will not now sell their shareholdings “for the foreseeable future”.

Mauna Kea's Cellvizio platform able to identify malignant tissue accurately in small-scale, proof-of-principle study.

University of Houston device could improve image quality in endoscopes and cameras.

Designed for industry, laser-diode pumped source is claimed to offer “world’s highest pulse energy”.

Company develops ArthroFree wireless camera system, a minimally-invasive platform for the operating theater.

Tampere University develops new way to exploit polarization in ultra-fast lasers.

NIST puts optical aberrations to good use as basis for calibration.